On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am using astlinux 0.7.1 on an alix2c3 board with a 2GB CF card.
>
> As far as I can see the system is optimized to reduce flash writes as much
> as possible.
>
> I am however wondering what writes are happening every couple of minutes to
> astdb? There are nearly no entries in the db and they are not changing.
> Still the file is written to in irregular intervals (about once every 5 to
> 10 min). No calls are being done at the time of testing.
>
> That would amount to more than 75000 writes each year, which seems to wear
> down the CF card significantly, I guess.
>
> 1.) Is this the normal behaviour of Astlinux (or something special in my
> installation)?
>
> 2.) Will this destroy my CF card in foreseeable time?
>
> 3.) Should I move the astdb file to a RAM disk and sync it via cron to the
> hard drive?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Michael

Michael,

  Random writes to flash via astdb are often caused by SIP clients
re-registering.  You can change your registration timeout to reduce
the number of registrations and writes to astdb/flash.

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Kristian Kielhofner
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